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Journal of African Cinemas 15.2-3 is out now!
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Journal of African Cinemas 15.2-3 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to present Journal of African Cinemas 15.2-3!

 

In this issue of Journal of African Cinemas a mix of transnational and cross-regional scholars discuss documentary cinemas and African stories.

 

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-african-cinemas

 

Aims & Scope

 

The Journal of African Cinemas is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that explores the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in African film. It recognizes the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas. Identity and perception are interrogated in relation to their positions within diverse African film languages.

 

This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

 

Issue 15.2-3

 

Editorial

ADDAMMS MUTUTA

 

Research Articles

 

There’s more Spain beyond the sea? Contemporary documentaries on Equatorial Guinea

ALEJANDRA VAL CUBERO

 

Nelson Makengo’s Nuit Debout: Infrastructures between promise and improvisation

STEYN BERGS

 

The ethics of wildlife documentary making in Africa: Fréderic Rossif’s La Fête Sauvage and the school of lies

IAN GLENN

 

Scriptwriting with AI: A comparative analysis of ChatGPT and human-crafted short-film scripts: A South African perspective

AIMEE VILJOEN

 

Global silences on African cinemas: Dialectic of omission in western canons

PAULO CUNHA

 

Obituaries

 

A word on Ken Harrow: Scholar extraordinaire

KEYAN G. TOMASELLI

 

To Professor Ken Harrow: Scholar, human rights activist and friend (1943–2024)

MAUREEN N. EKE

 

Book Reviews

 

Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes, Kenneth W. Harrow (2022)

ADDAMMS MUTUTA

 

Africa’s Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema, Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy (eds) (2014)

ADDAMMS MUTUTA

 

Richard Green in South African Film: Forging Creative New Directions, Keyan G. Tomaselli and Richard Green (2023)

TANJA SAKOTA